Hello Simon, "Simon Sobisch" <simonsobi...@web.de> writes:
> GnuCOBOL includes the manual in both info and PDF formats in its > tarballs, but the PDF is removed on `make clean`. > > This is the main part of doc/Makefile.am: > > _________________________________________ > > info_TEXINFOS = gnucobol.texi > gnucobol_TEXINFOS = fdl.texi > EXTRA_DIST = gnucobol.pdf > AM_MAKEINFOHTMLFLAGS = --no-headers --no-split > CLEANFILES = *.aux *.cp *.fn *.ky *.log *.pg *.toc *.tp *.vr *.vrs > TEXI2DVI = texi2dvi -I $(srcdir) > _________________________________________ > > This is the current behavior: > > * `make dist` creates .info and .pdf, both are included in the > tarball > * `make clean` removes .pdf > * `make maintainer-clean` removes .info > > Therefore the purpose of EXTRA_DIST "the user doesn't need to have the > tools installed to create the file" > only works as long as he doesn't call `make clean`. > > I've checked the generated Makefile.in and indeed it has > > clean-aminfo: > -test -z "gnucobol.dvi gnucobol.pdf gnucobol.ps gnucobol.html" \ > || rm -rf gnucobol.dvi > > > Is there an option to move gnucobol.pdf (and ideally gnucobol.html, > too) from clean-aminfo to maintainer-clean-aminfo? Automake assumes that only info files are distributed as stated by Automake manual [1]. This is the reason why only info files are built in ‘srcdir’ and not the other formats. While IMO it would be nice to support distribution of arbitrary documentation output formats, I would expect such feature to be far from trivial to implement. The strategy of checking ‘EXTRA_DIST’ for matching file names corresponding to distributed format seems a nice workaround, however it would need more consideration regarding the potential issues this solution might bring (in particular the ‘srcdir’ thing). So What I recommend for now would be for GNUCobol to not distribute PDF file for the sake of simplicity and robustness. On the Automake side what seems appropriate for such issue is to open a “wishlist” bug. WDYT? [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Texinfo.html -- Mathieu Lirzin GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761 070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37
